Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting?
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Not a useful answer, but a reinforcement of the problem.
Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 weeks ago
That’s pretty horrific.
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s also not completely fair, some of that money would have been spent elsewhere without datacenters. Investors still gonna invest.
postcapitalism@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
But what if the net ROI on those data centers is massively below the working average cost of capital… what is stated above is still massively destructive to capital and economic activity
LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah it’s definitely bad in the long run. I’m just saying that it isn’t fair to say that the economy wouldn’t be growing without these new datacenters.